News Review Of Current Events
Edward W Pickard surveys a wide array of week events from the 1920s era. Al Smith's border states tour draws large crowds while he criticizes Coolidge economy. Hoover defends tariff and farm policy. Borah campaigns in the South. Graf Zeppelin visits New York and Chicago with plans for Atlantic service. NYC corruption trial ends in convictions. Arkansas anti-evolution law provokes arrest of Charles Smith. Mussolini expands farm aid and imposes capital punishment for murder. Hungary eyes a king as Bethlen ponders future royal options. Marion Parker case ends at San Quentin. Royalist League of America promotes monarchical conversion in Dallas.
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Benefits of Regular Painting for Homes and Costs
Regular painting protects wood and metal, preserves property values, and reduces long term costs. It prevents weathering, with an optimal repaint cycle of every three to five years under average conditions. A good job requires quality paint and skilled workmanship, and using exterior paint only for exteriors.
Home Ownership Basis of Prosperity Conference Held in Chicago
A conference of retail lumber dealers from across the United States emphasized home ownership as the key to individual and national prosperity. The gathering aimed to organize a council to assist home builders in creating better livable homes while addressing merchandising issues faced by the industry. One speaker argued that home ownership precedes autos and radios, asserting homeowners are better citizens and community influences.
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Good Paint Pays When Painting Your House
The text argues enduring value in quality painting, noting long term savings when a sound foundation is laid. It contrasts material costs with painter time and highlights the effort of removing cracked paint before repairs. It cites paint authorities estimating 82 percent of paint goes onto old surfaces, underscoring surface quality importance.
Architectural artists seek unified design union
Architectural expression groups formed to resemble Dens in a pod have prompted the American Institute of Architects to plan a joint effort in arts of design. C Herrick Hammond, the institute president, announced a movement aiming at collaboration among architects sculptors mural painters landscape designers and craftsmen to create a new mode of architectural expression. The allied art committee led by J Monroe Hawlett of New York will direct the initiative.
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Reforestation Drive By Denver Park Volunteers
In Denver municipal parks 1000 boys and girls aided by the American Tree Association and the chamber of commerce forestry committee planted pines in Red Rocks park near Morrison. Students from State Industrial School near Golden planted trees on campus, while Manual Training High School groups worked in Dix Park.
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Single Family Home Ideal Promotes Family Growth
The piece argues the family is the social unit and the single family home best supports development. It highlights light air and sunshine as desirable factors, framing a community built on solid foundations around the family.
Dye-Making Industry Difficult to Master
Adolph June, San Francisco millionaire brewer, declares after arrival in New York that English home-made dye enterprises have collapsed. He cites loss of fortunes and mocks English reliance on stolen Geruvrin recipes, while praising German dye-making as complex and demanding. A cited trade paper details a chemical path to synthetically creating dyes.
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Will directs German marks held for tax assessment
A Maine Assistant Attorney General reports an unusual bequest in a will from a wealthy nonresident. The document mentions 143 million German marks bought during the war and instructs the executor to keep the currency until it can be redeemed at a reasonable price rather than appraise it as worthless. The marks were bought for about $6,000.
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Ancient Athens unearths marble hockey tablet reliefs
Workmen clearing debris from the Acropolis wills area in Athens uncover two marble relief tablets. One shows two youths with hockey sticks poised to strike a ball, while a third figure signals the play. The find ties to Themistocles era tools and methods.
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Parity Ranch Straddles Colorado Nebraska and Kansas
A ranch near the Colorado Nebraska Kansas tri state point is owned by Thomas Ashton. His Nebraska home sits beside bunkhouses in Colorado and cattle lands near the Kansas line. For forty years he has tended cattle and checked stock across all three states without missing a week.
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Assassinations in Russia and US Presidents Rise and Fall
In a Brooklyn Eagle note, the timeline spans from Czar Paul I of Russia, slain in 1801, to Nicholas II of Russia, killed in 1919, counting seventeen assassinations overall. Among them three Russian rulers and three U.S. presidents.
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Conversation Echoes of Cloth and Charity
A dialogue reveals Mr Hewitt as a tailor figure famed for references to a cloak of friendship and a mantle of charity. The exchange notes his dour outlook, predicting he seldom rises in life.
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